The first purported photo of the rumored Nokia Lumia 1520 Windows Phone with a 6-inch 1080P display

The Lumia 1520 will feature a huge six-inch 1080P display, a polycarbonate body (not metal) with a 20 MP PureView camera akin to the Lumia 925’s design, specifications that we revealed last week from our verified sources. The device will also feature a quad-core Snapdragon CPU and Windows Phone 8 GDR3 for the new 1080P support.

The image above was leaked to us and while we cannot confirm it, we have a suspicion that is accurate. For one, it comes with what looks like an optional back case with a front cover to protect the display. We also wouldn’t be surprised if it adds Qi wireless charging capability as well. It's placed next to what appears to be a Lumia 1020 for size comparison.

The other bit of evidence is that the display and bezel appear to closely match that of a leaked bezel from back in January, back when Nokia’s intention of making a phablet device were becoming clear. Everything from the Nokia label to the sensor locations to the thin bezel at the bottom appear to correspond. While not a slam dunk conclusion that at least favors a positive interpretation of the leaked photo.

We'll also note the standard proto.nokia.com etching at the bottom, as found on all Nokia tester phones.

Finally, with the display turned on we can see that as we would expect, there are three columns of Live Tiles now, including the ability to fit one double wide next to a medium sized tile. That feature would be needed due to the increased 1080P support found in GDR3.

Count me in too. Through in the 41MP preview variant, expandable storage sd slot, built in Qi, and it would be right up there with about perfect. The only thing to make it better would be a delicious 5 row high quality slide out keyboard (hell make it an optional accessory even with a built in extra battery) and it'd be perfect at that point.

I agree I like the red. Also, am I the only one who noticed the case the phone is in? It is like a mini Smart Cover or something similar to what BlackBerry did with a Z10 case (their Flip Shell). I like it.

I've had a few issues with my 920. The last issue was a cracked screen courtesy of my 3 year old. I almost would've had to jump through hoops to get a new one from At&t without using an upgrade. Leaving infuriated and nothing resolved I went to the Microsoft Store and for $99 I was given a NEW 920 any color i would like, i had the Black one and changed to Cyan, and a 2 year warranty covering everything except for lost or stolen. Any issues i have from here on out I'm going back to the Microsoft Store. Upgrades as well will be done through them also.

I don't think you would be able to fit three mediums on a L920 even if you squeezed them together to ensure there was no spacing it would not work. Imagine it may work for displays about 4.8 inchs at the minimum but that may be a stretch.

Its a toss up between this and a 7inch windows 8 tablet for me. I don't see the point in getting both but I can't see myself using this as a phone and I hate Bluetooth earpieces. Maybe ill use a wired headset...

It is a photoshop. I opened it up in PS and zoomed in. You can see a distinct block of black that was rubber stamped and in some cases on the right hand side of the bezel where it was sloppy done. For some reason the entire bottom third of the screen has been blacked out. Hate to say it, but most likely a fake somehow.

I guess these people are weaker than 4 years olds, my little nephews and neices young as 4 have no problems playing or sharing my L920 lol. Kids these days they don't want to play board games like Ludo, scrabble, connect4 etc they wanna play consoles, call of duty, GTA because either their older siblings play it or their folks just gave up caring.

You might now want it, which is perfectly fine. However, devices like the Galaxy Note indicate there is a market for devices in this range. Nokia would be a fool to make a compelling offering with Windows Phone for people that like gigantic phones.

Agree with on the idea that people want a big phone, just saying when you see people walking around talking on these type of large phones..in my opinion they just look like try hard look at me and my big phone people...but i do see the practicality of having a big screen but for me 4.5 is big enough..note until my eyes fail then i get a big screen phone lol

For most of us considering one it is a matter of trade-offs. Before I got a smart phone I had to carry around my phone, plus a laptop. Now I have a L920 and I only need the laptop occasionally. The hope for this kind of device is to be able to have 1 single device, and leave everything else behind... but that depends as much upon the software set as it does the form factor. Personally I would have like to have seen a 5-5.5" screen, but if 6" is what is available and it does everything else that I want then I am not going to complain any because it keeps me from having to lug around an 8lb laptop ever again.
But for non-business use I would agree that there is little point. For personal use just give me a nice 4" screen and I'll be happy, but if I am expected to type out the occasional email, edit word documents and send them out, and other such things, then give me something nice and big I can work with.

I thought this at first, too. But then I realized it's brilliant. You keep the phone as thin/light as possible for people who don't want wireless charging. And eventually all the "super mega body armor" cases start to include the wireless charging coil as part of their design. It's a win for everyone.

So then what if Qi does not win the standards war and remaining Qi products get ridiculously expensive (as if they weren't already)? When the L920 came out it was 'clear' that Qi was going to win, but now people are not so sure. It is much better to keep with external charging covers for now, then if one of the other standards takes off it is no big deal to swap out a different charging cover. But in the future when a standard is a clear and sure winner then I agree that it should be a stock feature built into the phone again. It is a paper thin copper wire, it is not adding any thickness or weight to the design.

Hey Daniel, that looks like a Lumia 1020 to me on the left, look at the left side of the black phone, you can see the thing where you would attach the thing. I dont know what its called haha but yeah, pretty sure its a 1020 on the left :)

I think at this stage, it's not good for Nokia to do a built-in charger when the accepted standard can change at any time. As usual, that rotten apple thing has decided to use somehting other than Qi so it has put the market in a flux. Until the standard is established, it's good that Nokia has the replaceable clip-on cover for wireless charging.

That's a Lumia 1020, not 920. The Nokia symbol on the front of the 920 is on the right side, not in the middle. You can also tell it's a 1020 because the capacitive buttons and Nokia symbol aren't reflective like they are in the 920.

Ooft! Gotta say I do quite like the look of that... If it has a stylus then this will probably be my next phone (I've played with a few friends' Galaxy Notes and while it's pretty big, I didn't feel uncomfortable using it...

Still, there's still the Lumia 825 and 930 to turn up before Christmas so I'll wait and see what they bring. If the 930 brings a 1080p screen but in a thin 925-like form factor and a 20MP camera I'll probably go with that.

I'll be buying an 8" Windows 8/RT tablet once they come out so a 6" phone too might be a bit overkill...

It does look rather comically large in this photo though...

As for whether the photo is genuine (Though I'm sure we'll have a device that looks like that), I'm unsure. Points in favour is that it uses the same kind of corner clips all of Nokia's current covers do (this is a negative for me aesthetically, I don't care for the look at all and it would be a shame if all the covers were like this) but points against are the Office tile being theme colour rather than Office coloured and the Win/Search/Back keys not being visible. Unless they're doing that cool thing HTC used to do where they rotate when the device is held horizontally they should really be visible...

I guess we'll find out in a month!

P.S. I hope Nokia bring back cyan with these next wave of devices. The lack of a cyan 920 or 1020 killed them for me.

Yes, the lack of cyan was abit annoying especially when they said it would be an AT&T exclusive colour I was hoping they would have the cyan colour for international release. But was disappointed so settled for the L920 in white since I needed to upgrade from my omnia pro B7610 lol.
I thought I was going blind at first when I saw the back/win/seach keys but yeah they are no visible and there are no place holders which is odd. I don't see Nokia adding a setting where you could turn them off lol.

Big, just big. If you want a big screen get a tablet. They are portable. Where does it stop. When does it become a tablet. It's only a inch smaller than 7" tablet. Just a gimmick. Make it inch bigger call it a tablet with Windows 8.

i'm raising the BS flag. look where the apps arrow is on the 1520, there is like a 3rd screen space left at the bottom. That is either photochop or something is screwed up with the resolution on that thing.

Don't think intellar has noticed it does move down to the bottom / sticks to last row of tiles :P.. But the lack windows logo, back key and search key are eyebrow raising to the say the least. But on the flipside its a prototype so things can change.